PROJECT PRODUCER
Project Coordinator // Culture Champions Trafford (GMCA and Great Places // Stretford Public Hall // 2019 - 2020
A programme working with people over 50 in North Trafford to co-design, plan and deliver their own community based projects. I am commissioning 10 new projects to be launched in 2020
Outreach Producer / Support Facilitator // Here & Now // Waterside Arts // 2020 - 2021
Here and Now is a national and local celebration of culture within communities. 40 new projects will take place in and around 40 arts centres across the country throughout 2020, led by artists and co-created with local people
Outreach Producer / Facilitator / Curator / Mentor // Refract Festival // Waterside Arts // 2019
A ten day summer programme bursting with experiential performance, music and events to challenge visitors to see things differently. I worked with local community groups to create artworks for an exhibition and mentored two new graduate artists
Project Producer // The Agency // Contact Mcr // 2020 / 2019 / 2016 / 2015
Programme that empowers young people to develop ideas and skills in the production of community
outreach projects
Founder / Artist / Producer / Curator // The Next Term // 2017 - 2018
Research and Creative project exploring the importance of creativity in education
Founder / Artist / Producer / Curator // Home is Where the Art is // 2014 - 2015
Visual art project tackling social isolation for people living with mental health illness
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Workshop Facilitator // en-JOY Arts // 2019
Workshops for young mothers studying PEARL and Arts Awards
Associate Artist and Curator // Radiotherapy & Me // Contact Mcr and NHS Public Programmes // 2019
Project exploring lived experience Radiotherapy through storytelling and visual art
Associate Artist and Curator // First Time // Waterside Arts Centre // 2018
A play, outreach project and exhibition about raising awareness of HIV+
Arts facilitator // Rainbow Haven // 2018
Workshops for women seeking asylum
Art Mentor // Youth Leaders Programme // Rio Ferdinand Foundation // 2017
Mentoring young people in workshop facilitation skills
Assistant Facilitator // Future Fires Short Course // Contact Mcr // 2015 / 2016 / 2017
Two day course providing practical skills in managing community projects
Artist // MELA Festival // Contact Mcr // 2017
Festival that celebrates South Asian Culture
Artist // The Agency - Afrobase // Contact Mcr // 2017
Participatory workshop at event in celebration of African Culture
Workshop Facilitator // Broken Grey Wires // 2017
Zine making at The Dragon Cafe, London
Installation Artist // ‘WHY’ Festival // Contact Mcr // 2016 & 2015
Interactive installations that engaged the audience in participation and conversation
Lead Artist // Arts on Prescription (NHS) // Stockport Art Gallery - 2015 - 2016
Visual arts workshops for people with mental health difficulties to promote positive well-being
Lead Workshop Facilitator // SWAP (Support for Wigan Arrivals) // Contact Mcr // 2016
Creative arts project for refugees and people seeking asylum that explored personal identity
Art Tutor and Youth Worker // Manchester Vocational Learning Academy (MVLA) // 2015
Working with young people (ESBD) aged 11-16 who had been excluded from mainstream education
Assistant Facilitator // Arts Award and SEPE (Supporting Employability and Personal Effectiveness) // Tandem Theatre // 2015
Utilising drama games and arts activities we helped young people in Eccles to achieve these qualifications
Lead Artist // Women’s Aid // The Pankhurst Centre // 2014
Ceramic workshops for vulnerable women. Artworks were showcased in ‘We Say’ exhibition
Lead Facilitator // ‘Attitude’ // Cartwheel Arts // 2014
Project exploring gender with a group of young women aged 11-16 in Oldham
Lead Facilitator // Mount Carmel Care Home // Well Arty // 2014
Drawing and collage workshops with residence living with dementia
Workshop Facilitator // START in Salford // 2014
Ceramic workshops with people mental health issues
COMMERCIAL WORK
Illustrator // EP cover // Private Commission // 2018
Scenic painter // Walk the Plank // 2018
Painted a large scale mechanical sculpture
Graphic Designer // I am because we are // Contact Mcr // 2018
A play about people in Manchester living with HIV
Artist/Painter // CILIP Carnegie Awards // Wild In Art // 2018
Recreated book cover onto bench
Sculpture maintenance // Bee in the City // Wild In Art // 2018
Repairing public bee sculptures
DESIGN FOR THEATRE
Set Install assistant and Prop maker // Drawing the Line // Hidden Track // 2019
Set Install assistant and Prop maker // Forest of Forgotten Discos // Contact Mcr // 2018
A children’s Christmas production
Set Artist / Illustrator // There is a Light : BRIGHTLIGHT, Contact Young Company // Contact Mcr //
2017
Play about young people’s experiences of having cancer
Set Designer // The Climate of Change, Contact Young Company // Contact Mcr // 2016
I designed the visual concept and installed props